It's important to remember, they're not trying to track us like cattle. They know fewer things about the cattle, and take better care of them.

I'm a little curious, and I'll just ask instead of reading your entire timeline... Did you feel the same outrage at being required to get a passport in the first place? The RFID chip probably doesn't have any more information (yet) than your passport itself. As the tech spreads, it's likely that they'll contain more of your payment info in the future.

People have been tracking other people for as long as we've been building walls around cities. Maybe even longer than that... the amount of written history degrades significantly in the times before walled cities. The elites fight longer-term wars than the resistance. In three more generations, everybody will be getting chipped at birth for 'convenience' and 'security', and people like us will be warning everyone not to get the new thought-interface implant.

Microwaving those chips will probably disable them, and you might be able to fight your conviction on the grounds that it was never your intent to tamper with the chip, which suggests modifying it to serve a different purpose. You simply wanted to disable it.

I can tell you from experience that an old school hard drive needs a LOT more than a few seconds in the microwave to get 'cooked'. Even after you cook it, the info in the platters is probably still good. I don't know if the technique works any better on chip memory, but I think it's unlikely. Your microwave will probably fry before you burn up that silicon. Smashing them with a hammer works pretty well on all that stuff. Cutting torches will also do the job pretty quick. Dousing in saltwater while powered up should work for most devices, but I haven't tried it.

I've already run my mouth much more than I planned to. Pleased to meet you, stay safe out there.